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Mustafina, Sidorova dominate in Moscow's Voronin Cup Event Finals

Galina at the Russian Federation's message board has now posted results of yesterday's event finals, kindly in English. 

Aliya Mustafina gained two golds in the finals she competed, vault and floor.  Nabieva took bars, and Anna Pavlova took beam.

In the junior competition Anastasia Sidorova won first in vault, beam and floor, leaving bars to Ukrainian Alina Vasilievna.  Sidorova did not qualify to bars final following a major break during a transition from high to low bar, but this was an otherwise dominant performance by this emerging young gymnast.

Top three finishers are provided below.  All gymnasts were competing for Russia, unless otherwise stated.

Senior competition


Vault

1 Nabieva T         14.8
2 Chusovitina O    14.375
3 Pavlova A          14.25

A Bars

1        Mustafina A           15.5
2        Nabieva T              14.75
3        Galiulina L (UZB)  13.15

Beam

1                    Pavlova, A               14.5
2                    Maksiuta, V (ISR)   14.2
3          Galiulina, L (UZB)    13.00
4          Elizarova, D (UZB)   12.75

Floor

1                    Mustafina, A                   14.7
2                    Belokobylskyaya, Yulia, 14.4
3                    Elizarova, D (UZB)        13.85
4                    Galiulina, L (UZB)          13.5

 Junior competition

Vault

1                    Sidorova, A             14.00
2                    Liubitska, D (UKR) 13.85
3                    Rumbutis, Y (SWE) 13.7

Bars

1                    Vasilievna, A (UKR) 13.9
2                    Liubitska, D (UKR)  13.6
3                    Bondareva, M           13.5

Beam

1                    Sidorova, A                     14.6
2                    Liubitska, D (UKR)         13.3
3                    Bauyizhonova, A (KAZ)  12.9

Floor

1                    Sidorova, A                14.2
2                    Sankova, K (UKR)    13.8
3                    Bramman, S                13.6

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